Jesus said: “This is eternal life, that you may know the ONLY true GOd AND Jesus Christ whom HE has sent.

I guess for me it is more about believing the testimony of Jesus and the apostles, rather than later philosophers trying to make sense of it all.

The Trinity Doctrine either comes from the Spirit of God or the Spirit of man or possibly…[Read more]

I wondered who it was that said, “the dead know not anything”. I knew it was somewhere in scripture.

Well put.

Who are you talking too? If you are addressing the writing above, it in no way states that the Bible contradicts itself. You may need to re-read it. 🙂

@ Anastas
Good post.

After all, if we can see that people need help on the other side of the world, we can still see that need and help just the same as someone you have met or know.

We are saved by the grace of God because no amount of repentance will get you into Heaven. The soul that sins will die and we have all sinned. However, acceptance of the gift of salvation is not just an intellectual acceptance of salvation. It requires that you turn your life right around. This is how you accept the gift. Repentance means to turn…[Read more]

Good stuff Kevin. Jesus taught us that when we see people in need, we give or help them. He didn’t teach us to tithe. And most money that goes into a denomination’s coffers is said to be spent mostly on upkeep of the denomination such as mortgage, rent, wages, etc. Best to give when we see the need. This is how Jesus taught us to give.

Mat 25:30 And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

If a man is thrown into outer darkness, then where does it say that they will be alive forever. Even a natural death by fire would for example lead to gnashing of death because of the pain of dying. But that doesn’t…[Read more]

Mat 25:46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.

If I have life and the reward of God is eternal life, then that means I will live eternally which by implication means that by default man does not live eternally, rather it is a gift.

It would stand to reason then that if sinners are punished by…[Read more]

Further, we can sit with Jesus on his throne in like manner. More sharing.

Correct:
God is spirit. Angels are spirits.
God has divine nature, we can partake of divine nature.
God is light. Jesus said, “ye are the light of the world”.

Conclusion:
Not all who are spirits are God.
Not all who are divine are God.
Not all who are light are God.

So if Jesus is divine and the light, that would not be proof that he…[Read more]

I don’t think Ed is necessarily denying that it is literal, (not from what I read in his post at least), but that the fire is what redeems all things. However, as that may be possible, (we do not know all of God’s plans) the Second Death is eternal destruction. Hence the simplest understanding of that is death is eternal just as the life that the…[Read more]

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Jesus is the glory of God in bodily form. The fullness of God. We reflect God in part only.

A couple of things Anastas.

“ETERNAL PUNISHMENT: but the righteous into eternal life.”

Surely these are opposites. The opposite of life is death and we are talking about new life (second life) and second death.

Also you mention a place where the worm dieth not. You understand the word ‘death’ here, but when the wicked perish in the Second…[Read more]